Gee, it's almost like corporatizing real estate rental property without proper oversight leads to robber barons trying to squeeze blood from a stone, inevitably resulting in a collapse of the entire system...
America kinda did promise to back up Ukraine if it was invaded, for it's nuclear disarmament. To back out of that is a dick move. Supporting Isreal with their genocide is more than a dick move, though.
It's more of a dick move that we're doing nothing about housing scarcity in our own country, but that's to be expected when all we elect are wealthy investment speculators.
I moved to Seattle at the start of the plague (perfect timing I know). I don't have first hand experience from the before times but for sure the last couple of years the amount of homelessness has gone way up. Apartments here are raising rent like wild. They're definitely testing the line for how many people they can lose to increased prices while still coming out ahead with the people who remain. Once the work from home or fired tech workers move out in full force it's going to snowball I think. I wonder if Seattle is going to collapse similar to how Spokane did back in the day after manufacturers moved out...
Yeah I'm not sure which algorithm the complex I'm in uses but it is definitely using one. All the listings on their website change prices every day, sometimes by just a few dollars a month sometimes it swings wildly by hundreds of dollars
I don't think it's skirting at all. Using math to collude on prices is still collusion. It's just as illegal as a bunch of companies saying the price is X.
lived in Seattle for close to 20 years now and I can confirm that the city (especially downtown) is a giant mess - pre 2020 it wasnt that bad - there were issues but not like now. hopefully it collapses like a burning building asap.
I mean, that's a significant amount of data to compile from folks that probably won't be filing right into your database for you. You have to get people walking around encampments with a clipboard in a whole lot of places.
